taxonID	type	description	language	source
F06FA25FFFD2FF93FF0205EEFB08818D.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Persanura hyrcanica sp. nov.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF93FF0205EEFB08818D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Blue hypodermic pigment present on the body. 3 + 3 darkly pigmented eyes present. Mouth parts reduced, maxilla styliform, mandible strong. Labral chaetotaxy 0 / 0, 4. Chaetae A on head shorter than chaetae B. Tubercles L and So on head fused, tubercles Af and Cl separated. The line of chaetae Di 2 – De 2 crosses the line Di 1 – De 1 on head (the cross – type, Deharveng 1983). Tubercles on body well developed. Tubercles Di on abd. V not fused along midline. Cryptopygy present. Tibiotarsal chaetotaxy 19, 19, 18. Claw untoothed.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF93FF0205EEFB08818D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Named after the historical name of Iran, Persia.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF93FF0205EEFB08818D.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Three morphological characters, the presence of 3 + 3 pigmented eyes, separateness of tubercles Af and Cl on head, and the arrangement of chaetae Di and De on head of the cross type, place Persanura gen. nov. very close to three genera of the tribe Neanurini: Neanura MacGillivray, 1893, Kalanura Smolis, 2007 and Xylanura Smolis, 2011. The new genus, however, can be easily distinguished from them by using many characters: the labral chaetotaxy (0 / 0, 4 in Persanura gen. nov., 4 / 2, 4 in the remaining genera), the arrangement of tubercles Dl, So and L on head (in Persanura gen. nov. and Xylanura tubercles L and So fused, but Dl separate, in Kalanura all three lateral tubercles separate, in Neanura So separate but tubercles L and Dl, or a part of Dl fused), the length of chaetae A and B on head (in Neanura chaetae A and B of the same length, in the other genera chaeta A shorter than B), the presence / absence of tubercles on the first thoracic tergum (complete absence in Xylanura, presence or absence of tubercles Di in Neanura, presence in Persanura gen. nov. and Kalanura), the number of chaetae Di on th. II – III (2 in Persanura gen. nov., 3 in the remaining genera), presence / absence of tubercles Di on abd. I – IV (absent in Xylanura, present in the remaining genera), the arrangement of tubercles Di on abd. V (separate in Persanura gen. nov., fused in Xylanura, separate or fused in Kalanura and Neanura Tab. 3).	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF96FF02010CFBC5809E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Habitus typical of the tribe Neanurini (Cassagnau 1989). Buccal cone short and relatively wide. Mandible with 6 teeth. Labium with 11 + 11 chetae, papillae x absent. Head with 3 chaetae Oc, chaetae A, B, C, D and E. Chaeta O absent. Tubercles Dl and (L + So) on head with 4 and 7 chaetae respectively. Tubercles De on th. II and III with 3 chaetae. Tubercles L on abd. III and IV with 3 and 5 chaetae respectively. Furca rudimentary without microchaetae. Tibiotarsi with relatively short chaetae.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF96FF02010CFBC5809E.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined (all on slides). Holotype, female, soil and litter, oak-hornbeam forest, Semeskandeh forest, 5 km SE of Sari (N 36 ° 32 ' 55 ", E 53 ° 9 ' 25 " / 190 m a. s. l.), Sari county, Mazandaran province, Hyrcanian Forest, Iran, leg. M. Mehrafrooz Mayvan. Paratypes: 1 female, 3 males, same data as holotype. Holotype and 3 paratypes are deposited at the Institute of Environmental Biology, Wrocław University, Poland and 1 paratype in the collection of the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Crop Sciences, Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Iran. a) Cephalic chaetotaxy –– dorsal side. b) Chaetotaxy of antennae.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF96FF02010CFBC5809E.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name is derived from the terra typica –– the Hyrcanian Forest.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF96FF02010CFBC5809E.taxon	description	Description. Body length (without antennae): 0.85 – 1.1 mm (holotype: 1 mm). Colour of the body grayishblue. 3 + 3 medium size, darkly pigmented eyes. Types of dorsal ordinary chaetae: macrochaetae Ml relatively long and thin, narrowly sheathed, slightly serrated, apically rounded (Figs 2, 7, 8 – 9); macrochaetae Mc short and thin, narrowly sheathed, feebly serrated, pointed at apex; mesochaetae and microchaetae short, very thin and pointed. Head. Bucal cone wide and not pointed (Figs 1, 3). Labrum with ventral sclerification as in Fig. 1. Labral chaetotaxy 0 / 0, 4 (Fig. 3). Chaetotaxy of labium and group Vi as in Fig. 1. Mandible strong, with 2 basal and a distal tooth subdivided in 4 apical toothlets (Fig. 5). Maxilla styliform as in Fig. 6. Chaetotaxy of antennae as in Tab. 1 and in Fig. 4. S – chaetae on ant. IV long and moderately thickened (Fig. 4), S 7 longer and more curved than others. Chaetotaxy of head as in Figs 1 – 3 and in Tab. 1. Tubercles L and So fused, with 7 chaetae. Tubercle Dl with 4 chaetae. Chaetae D free. Chaetae A distinctly shorter than chaetae B. Tubercle Di differentiated. Thorax, abdomen, legs. Chaetotaxy of th. and abd. as in Figs 2, 7 8 – 10 and in Tab. 2. Sensillar formula of the body: 022 / 11111, s-microchaeta on Dl of th. II present. Body s-chaetae fine and smooth, about twice shorter than nearby macrochaetae Ml (Figs 2, 7, 10). Tubercle De on th. I with one chaeta. Dorsal side of th. and abd. without free chaetae. Tubercle Dl on abd. IV with two chaetae. Tubercles Di on abd. V separate, with chaetae Di 2 as Mcc or microchaetae (Fig. 7). Chaeta Di 1 of abd. V shorter than chaeta Di 1 of abd. IV (Figs 7 – 9). Chaeta Ve 1 on abd. II usually absent. Furca rudimentary without microchaetae. Tubercle L on abd. IV without free chaetae. Abd. IV with 10 chaetae Ve. Chaetae L’ and Vl on abd. V absent. Chaetotaxy of legs as in Tab. 2. Chaeta M present. Claw relatively long, without inner denticle.	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
F06FA25FFFD2FF96FF02010CFBC5809E.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is most similar to Kalanura babenkoi Smolis, 2007 by the separation of tubercles Di on abd. V and the presence of dorsal tubercles. The differences between them are presented above in the generic discussion and in Tab. 3. Sterna abd. I 2 2 + s 2 3 VT: 4 abd. II 2 2 + s 2 3 Ve: 4 Vel – absent or present Genus Characters Labrum Lateral Lenght of Tubercles Di Number of Tubercles Di Tubercles Di chaetotaxy tubercles of chaetae A and of th. I chaetae Di of abd. I-IV of abd. V head B of th. II-III	en	Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafroz, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Smolis, Adrian, Skarżyński, Dariusz (2015): Persanura hyrcanica, a new genus and species of Neanurinae (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Iran, with a key to genera of the tribe Neanurini. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 552-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.4
